Chapter 430: Compromise Negotiation
(a)
After you and the Han army you brought with you were all killed, Hankel stood on the cliff and judged the current situation.
He felt that although he was harassed by you and lost his father Khan, the Han army base camp was still empty. So, he decided not to return in vain. He decided to continue the attack of his father Khan and finish off the base camp of the Han army.
So, they continued to advance and outflanked the back of the Han army's base camp.
Just when they finally arrived, they saw a new obstacle. Sun Haocheng's troops had already arrived within six hours.
You were still alive when you entrusted Yang Biao to give this order to Sun Haocheng. But by the time Sun Haocheng arrived, you were already dead.
At present, the strength of the Han army's base camp has reached 16,000 people.
After a moment of battle between Hankel and Sun Hao, he knew that the attack had failed completely.
The Han army surrounded them.
Under siege, Hankel showed composure and intelligence not often seen in teenagers. It occurred to him that what could not be solved by military means could be solved by trade exchange. So, he raised a white flag and asked to negotiate with Sun Haocheng.
Sun Haocheng sneered when he heard his request: "You are now the meat on the board and the fish on the hook." What leverage do you have to negotiate with me? ”
Hankel replied: "We have." ”
Hankel said calmly: "We know Gino's whereabouts, and their last situation, and you don't know. If you want to know what happened to Gino, if you want to find him, you have to talk to me. If we all die in battle, no one in the world will know what happened to him anymore. ”
Thus began the negotiations.
Sun Haocheng agreed to release the Khan's troops and let them keep and bury the remains of Ulindenmu Khan, while the Khan's troops led by Hankel agreed to lead the Han army to find the remains of you and other Han soldiers.
After Hankel and his party left. Sun Haocheng walked out of the camp with a pale face and sat on a stone with a heavy heart. He sat on the stone in the field for a long time, until twilight. Then, he ordered to report the news of your death and martyrdom to Yang Biao and the Han King of Yunjing.
(b)
The next day, Sun Haocheng, under the leadership of the Khan royal army led by Hankel, led his troops to the mouth of Xiyuan Gorge to find the remains of the dead of the Han army.
They found some horrific corpses. Many of the corpses were blurred with flesh and blood, and it was no longer possible to identify who was who.
Judging from the weapons and clothing, they could have Wu Shun among the broken corpses at the intersection of a trail, and the last Han army commander who died on the hillside with blurred flesh and blood should be Guan Wenliang.
Sun Haocheng found Wu Shun's broken sword in a sea of corpses and blood.
He picked up the sword and couldn't help but shed tears in the wind, overwhelmed with grief.
Later, the broken saber replaced Wu Shun and was buried under his tombstone.
Around noon. Sun Haocheng came to the cliff where you fell.
There, he saw the crater that had been blown out. He hasn't found any trace of your life other than this big pit.
The Han army spent a day and a night trying to go down the rope to find out how deep the cliff really was. But all the ropes are gone, and the bottom has not yet been seen.
The last soldier who had been taken down came up and shivered with cold, almost unconscious.
He said there was nothing down there but darkness and darkness. He said it was as if he heard the roar of running water in his ears.
Actions to search for your remains. Later, it was carried out several times in succession. But no one has been able to find you.
No one in that world has ever found you again.
(c)
The fact that your body has not been found has made Liu Shen uneasy for a long time. He feels sorry for you. Again and again, he ordered the Han army to search repeatedly. But in the end he had to accept this fact.
Then. He didn't think it was necessarily bad.
Didn't the enemy always think that you were a god? Then go with the flow and say that you are a god.
Isn't a monarch who is assisted by a god just the destiny of heaven?
So, in this atmosphere of apotheosis, the matter of searching for bones slowly stopped being mentioned, and later. It's forgotten.
However, there is one person who has not forgotten.
That person is me.
Although I have no way to break the myth established by Liu Shen in this long life, this matter has always been hidden in my heart. It goes into every cell of mine.
So, I'm going to get it done. Even if it's not in this life, in this life.
(iv)
As you continue to be deified, after the establishment of the new dynasty, temples of the god of war began to appear all over the country to worship you.
You were molded into a statue of a god and enshrined in the temple, becoming a symbol of the guardianship of the peace.
There are many elaborate murals left in the temple of the god of war, which are meticulously colored, beautifully depicted, and vividly detailed, reflecting the wealth and prosperity of the Taiping Dynasty under Liu Shen's rule. These murals also depict many classic scenes of you leading the New Han Army into battle.
Later, when I was exploring that time, I often saw in the history books that the Begi people called you "Gino". The original meaning of the word in their language is "the elusive and majestic god", which is the collective impression you leave on the Begi people. But the word has another meaning. It is the pronunciation of your name pronounced in the language of the Begi people.
(5)
The Battle of Xiyuan on the grassland was almost over at this time.
After Yang Biao and Sun Zhanming inflicted heavy losses on Dasuo, they tightly besieged him on the grassland.
They are waiting for your news.
Although they all knew what the news was coming, they were devastated when the news did. Yang Biao couldn't help but think of the last words goodbye to you, and the first meeting under the original pass, Sun Zhanming remembered his voice and smile when he went out of the customs to join you on a rainy night, and you greeted him in person when you were sick.
That night, on the entire northern front, the banners of the Han army barracks were all lowered.
The blow and sorrow of the bad news spread like a plague throughout the army.
The same is true of the hostile camp.
The news of the death of Ulinden Mukhan also quickly spread throughout the steppe.
(f)
The news of the death of Ulindenmu Khan and you soon ended the fighting in the steppe.
Both sides felt a heavy blow and fell into grief and had no intention of fighting again.
Thus, the matter is back on the track of a political settlement.
Liu Shen's envoys held several rounds of negotiations with the leaders of the various tribes of the steppe.
After the Begi agreed to some harsh conditions and paid a considerable amount of wealth as a ransom, the siege of the Great Sobe was lifted.
Dasuo returned to the steppe and succeeded to the throne of Khan.
But the authority of the new Khan was challenged from all sides.
Since then, the Beji people have been mired in internal strife, and they can no longer form the unity and union they used to be.
The following year, Dasuo was killed in the civil strife, and the Beji tribes fell into division and moved to the Mobei region one after another.
Since then, except for a large military conflict between the two sides in the thirteenth year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, there has been no more fighting between the two sides on the northern front.
Liu Shen's county was established to 2/3 grasslands.
In that conflict during the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, Yang Biao wiped out the tribe of the new Khan King Hankel in one fell swoop, and Hankel died on the battlefield.
It was the last battle between the two peoples.
After the war, the Begi tribes migrated further north, and since then, they have gradually disappeared from history. (To be continued.) )